Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night; or, What you willG. Barrie & Son, 1894 |
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... PLAY BY CHARLES KNIGHT , ESQ . THE EMINENT SHAKESPEARIAN SCHOLAR TO WHICH ARE ADDED SHAKESPEARE A CONCORDANCE OF FAMILIAR GEMS FROM ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THE PLAYS , GLOSSARY , INDEX , ETC. ILLUSTRATED WITH FIFTY ...
... PLAY BY CHARLES KNIGHT , ESQ . THE EMINENT SHAKESPEARIAN SCHOLAR TO WHICH ARE ADDED SHAKESPEARE A CONCORDANCE OF FAMILIAR GEMS FROM ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THE PLAYS , GLOSSARY , INDEX , ETC. ILLUSTRATED WITH FIFTY ...
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... play in our interlude before the duke and the duchess , on his wedding - day at night . Bot . First , good Peter Quince , say what_the play treats on , then read the names of the actors , and so grow to a point . ΙΟ Quin . Marry , our play ...
... play in our interlude before the duke and the duchess , on his wedding - day at night . Bot . First , good Peter Quince , say what_the play treats on , then read the names of the actors , and so grow to a point . ΙΟ Quin . Marry , our play ...
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... play a woman ; I have a beard coming . 50 Quin . That's all one : you shall play it in a mask , and you may speak as small as you will . Bot . An I may hide my face , let me play Thisby too , I'll speak in a monstrous little voice ...
... play a woman ; I have a beard coming . 50 Quin . That's all one : you shall play it in a mask , and you may speak as small as you will . Bot . An I may hide my face , let me play Thisby too , I'll speak in a monstrous little voice ...
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... play Pyramus . 91 Bot . Well , I will undertake it . What beard were I best to play it in ? Quin . Why , what you will . Bot . I will discharge it in either your straw- colour beard , your orange - tawny beard , your purple - in - grain ...
... play Pyramus . 91 Bot . Well , I will undertake it . What beard were I best to play it in ? Quin . Why , what you will . Bot . I will discharge it in either your straw- colour beard , your orange - tawny beard , your purple - in - grain ...
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... Playing on pipes of corn and versing love To amorous Phillida . Why art thou here , Come from the farthest steppe of India ? But that , forsooth , the bouncing Amazon , Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love , To Theseus must be ...
... Playing on pipes of corn and versing love To amorous Phillida . Why art thou here , Come from the farthest steppe of India ? But that , forsooth , the bouncing Amazon , Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love , To Theseus must be ...
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Page 170 - And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 131 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines...
Page 406 - Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid ; Fly away, fly away, breath ; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it ! My part of death, no one so true Did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strown ; Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown : A thousand thousand sighs to save, Lay me, O, where Sad true lover never find my grave, To weep there ! Duke.
Page 35 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet...
Page 167 - And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, " It is ten o'clock : Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags: '"Tis but an hour ago since it was nine ; And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 74 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.